Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) Given New $120.00 Price Target at Mizuho

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD - Get Free Report) had its target price reduced by analysts at Mizuho from $140.00 to $120.00 in a research note issued to investors on Friday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage currently has an "outperform" rating on the semiconductor manufacturer's stock. Mizuho's target price points to a potential upside of 22.31% from the company's current price.

AMD has been the subject of several other reports. Benchmark restated a "buy" rating and set a $170.00 target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research report on Tuesday, February 18th. Hsbc Global Res cut shares of Advanced Micro Devices from a "strong-buy" rating to a "moderate sell" rating in a report on Wednesday, January 8th. StockNews.com lowered shares of Advanced Micro Devices from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a report on Thursday, March 6th. Wolfe Research lowered shares of Advanced Micro Devices from an "outperform" rating to a "peer perform" rating in a report on Thursday, January 16th. Finally, KeyCorp lowered their price objective on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $150.00 to $140.00 and set an "overweight" rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, February 5th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have issued a hold rating, nineteen have assigned a buy rating and three have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus target price of $155.14.

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Advanced Micro Devices Price Performance

Shares of AMD stock opened at $98.11 on Friday. The firm's 50 day moving average price is $112.54 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $133.69. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 1.83 and a current ratio of 2.62. Advanced Micro Devices has a 52-week low of $94.73 and a 52-week high of $196.93. The stock has a market cap of $158.99 billion, a PE ratio of 99.10, a PEG ratio of 1.11 and a beta of 1.74.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $1.07. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 7.42% and a net margin of 6.36%. As a group, analysts forecast that Advanced Micro Devices will post 3.87 EPS for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, EVP Philip Guido acquired 4,645 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 7th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $107.56 per share, with a total value of $499,616.20. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 33,522 shares of the company's stock, valued at $3,605,626.32. This trade represents a 16.09 % increase in their ownership of the stock. The acquisition was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Company insiders own 0.73% of the company's stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Advanced Micro Devices

Several hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Bedell Frazier Investment Counselling LLC increased its position in Advanced Micro Devices by 4.3% during the 3rd quarter. Bedell Frazier Investment Counselling LLC now owns 1,780 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock worth $292,000 after buying an additional 74 shares during the period. NCM Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 0.9% in the third quarter. NCM Capital Management LLC now owns 8,654 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $1,420,000 after acquiring an additional 75 shares in the last quarter. Pin Oak Investment Advisors Inc. increased its position in Advanced Micro Devices by 15.2% during the third quarter. Pin Oak Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 575 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock worth $94,000 after acquiring an additional 76 shares during the period. Bank of Marin raised its stake in Advanced Micro Devices by 1.3% in the 3rd quarter. Bank of Marin now owns 6,007 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock worth $986,000 after purchasing an additional 80 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Northeast Financial Consultants Inc boosted its holdings in Advanced Micro Devices by 2.9% in the 3rd quarter. Northeast Financial Consultants Inc now owns 2,920 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $479,000 after purchasing an additional 81 shares during the period. 71.34% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

About Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. It operates through Data Center, Client, Gaming, and Embedded segments. The company offers x86 microprocessors and graphics processing units (GPUs) as an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, data center, and professional GPUs; and embedded processors, and semi-custom system-on-chip (SoC) products, microprocessor and SoC development services and technology, data processing unites, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and adaptive SoC products.

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